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(Model) A. L. JONES FABRIC FOR WINDOW SHADES, am. No. 283,893. Patented Au 28, 1883..

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,893, dated August 28, 1883, Application filed May 14, 1883. (Munich) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. Jones, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Fabrics for \Vindow-Shades, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a fabric, chiefly of paper or other suitable material, which can be used for window-shades, screens, wrappers, envelopes, bags, boxes, 85c. which will possess durability, and may also be made very ornamental; and it consists in the.

production of an article of manufacture, being a fabric composed of layers of paper or other suitable material having fibers of the same or of other material in the form of threads, cords, tape, ribbons, straw, or fine wires of any metal placed between them, all of which, by the use of adhesive materials and by pressure, are wrought into form and substance as one sheet or fabric.

The drawings show one of the many forms of my improved fabric, Figure 1 being a sectional end view, and Fig. 2 a view showing the fabric with the outer layer or layers partly removed, so as to show one form of and way in which the interior fibrous material is used.

In the drawings, A represents one of the outer sheets or layers, 13 another, and O O G the intervening fibrous material.

To produce this improved fabric I take sheets, strips, or layers of paper or other ma terial, any or all of which may be plain, printed, embossed, plaited, fluted, corrugated, perforated, woven, or otherwise prepared or ornamented, and place between them fibers of the same or of other materials, in the form of threads, cords, twines, braids, tapes, ribbons, or straw, or fine wire of any metal, severally or in combinations of two or more of such fibrous materials, in order to secure strength and variety one or more of the articles used to give it tensile strengthsuch as threads, cords, twines,

may be placed parallel with each other, or they may be placed in any other position desired, either .thickly covering the inner surfaces of the sheets, layers, &c., or being sparsely scattered over the same. The edges of one or more of the sheets, strips, &c., may be folded back or turned over or in, so as to form a hem or binding having one or more of the wires or threads, &c., inclosed therein. By the use of different colors in the sheets, strips, or layers, and of printed, painted, perforated, cut, or woven designs, thethreads,wires, cords, tapes, ribbons, Ste, having been properly placed, suitable adhesive material having been ap* plied, and the whole subjected to the requisite pressure, a fabric is produced having one or more colors or designs upon one face or side and another color, colors, or designs upon the other side, and which presents, when be tween the eye and the light,'other colors or tints, figures, letters, or designs not seen upon either face.

The embossed, plaited, or otherwise ornamented side of the sheets, strips, &c., imposed or interposed may be upon the outside of or within the fabric, their relative positions being determined by the requirements of style, qual ity, &c. hen a plaited sheet or layer is interposed between two or more plain smooth ones, the fabric presents a smooth or plain and even appearance, except between the eye and the light, when the outline appears, as is also the case when figures, letters, or designs are employed in like manner. This improved fabric may be made in a variety of styles, either ornamented or plain, care being taken to give it the necessary tensile strength by having fibrous substances interposed between the sheets, layers, strips, &e., and it may be adapted to use for a variety of purposes, some of which have already been mentioned.

I am aware that a fabric has heretofore been patented or describedhaving longitudinal threads incorporated between two sheets of ICO / but the fibers of the same or of other materials in paper-pulp in the process of manufacture. I do not, however, claim such as my invention;

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A fabric composed of layers of paper, or other suitable materials, having between them the form of threads, cords, tapes, ribbons, or fine wires of any metal, all of which, by pressure and the use of adhesive materials, are Wrought into form and substance as one sheet or fabric, substantially as set forth.

ALBERT -L. JONES.

Witnesses:

HUBERT A. BANNiNG, J oI-IN E. TALBOT. 

